02/04/2015 | CAA 2015 – KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING
Outline
Outline
- What is a scientific community
- Similarities with Free Software community
- Concepts of reuse, modulation and reproducibility
- Reproducibility in archaeology
- Conclusion
The scientific community
Diversity makes the difference
- Science is cumulative
- Differents points of views stabilise knowledge
- Diversity invigorates problem solving
Functions of the scientific community
- Inspiration
- Motivation
- Scrutiny
Free Software and Science
Some similarities
- Peer review
- Validation and replication
- Culture of credit, civility
- Reputation
- Communication
Some dissimilarities
- How projects are developed, maintained, contested, and how ideas are exchanged
- Challenge what is taken for granted in science
Modifiability
- Centuries of adaptation to 'stable knowledge'
- New paradigms with constant modulation
Challenge the ‘Power of Knowledge’
C. Kelty, Two Bits
- New IT render the knowledge more dynamic (Vinck 2014)
- New practices: ex. "Push and Publish" workflow (Kansa 2014)
- Reconcile process and result
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
"We often forget that scientific knowledge is reliable not because scientists are more clever, objective or honest than other people, but because their claims are exposed to criticism and replication." (Fanelli 2013)
Pedagogical role
" In pedagogical terms, Windows is to fish as UNIX is to fishing lessons "
- Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition
Pedagogy
" In pedagogical terms, Windows is to fish as UNIX is to fishing lessons "
- Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition
- An R Companion to Quantifying Archaeology by Stephen Shennan from David L. Carlson
Pedagogy
" In pedagogical terms, Windows is to fish as UNIX is to fishing lessons "
- Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition
- An R Companion to Quantifying Archaeology by Stephen Shennan from David L. Carlson
- Quantitative Archaeology Wiki: www.isoa.it
Blurring borders
- (Archaeological) project with R on Hittite seals
Blurring borders
- (Archaeological) project with R on Hittite seals
- Communication with informal and wider communities
- Common language and a common goal through which foreign disciplines are revisited
Blurring borders
- (Archaeological) project with R on Hittite seals
- (Statistical) project of Hélène Lombard et Lise Radoszycki
Blurring borders
- (Archaeological) project with R on Hittite seals
- (Statistical) project of Hélène Lombard et Lise Radoszycki
Mixing of competences: two ways ambiguation.
On-going work on Github: https://github.com/nehemie/CachetsHittites
Conclusion
Key points
- Relation of FS with archaeology
- FS question transmission and reuse of knowledge.
- Reproducibility makes the research pipeline available for scrutinity
- Need of further advocacy for FS in archaeology:
- Stronger research
- Pedagogical
- Innovative
Thank you
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Backup slide
Publishing and Pushing
References
Fanelli, Daniele. 2013. “Redefine Misconduct as Distorted Reporting.” Nature 494: 149. doi:10.1038/494149a.
Kansa, Eric C., Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Benjamin Arbuckle. 2014. “Publishing and Pushing: Mixing Models for Communicating Research Data in Archaeology.” International Journal of Digital Curation 9.1: 57–70. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.301.
Kelty, Christopher M. 2001. “Free Software/Free Science.” First Monday 6 (12). http://pear.accc.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/902.
———. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Experimental Futures. Durham: Duke University Press. http://twobits.net/pub/Kelty-TwoBits.pdf.
Marwick, Ben. 2014. “Reproducible Research: A View from the Social Sciences.” http://benmarwick.github.io/UW-eScience-reproducibility-social-sciences.
Vinck, Dominique, and Claire Clivaz. 2014. “Les Humanités Délivrées. Savoir Et Culture Réinventés Hors Du Livre.” Revue d’anthropologie Des Connaissances 8.4: 681–704. doi:10.3917/rac.025.0681.